{"id":1178,"date":"2022-07-29T01:33:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T20:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lookouthost.com\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2022-07-29T01:33:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T20:03:46","slug":"how-to-enable-external-smtp-in-whm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lookouthost.com\/blog\/how-to-enable-external-smtp-in-whm\/","title":{"rendered":"How TO Enable External SMTP in WHM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are setting up external SMTP like Google Workspace and are getting following error: <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>SMTP Debug: SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.\u200b<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure><p>Then you need to do some tweaks inside WHM.<\/p><ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>WHM > Tweak Settings > &#8220;Restrict outgoing SMTP to root, exim, and mailman (FKA SMTP Tweak)&#8221; (or through WHM > SMTP Restrictions)<\/li><li>If server uses CSF then ensure that SMTP_BLOCK is disabled in the CSF configuration\u00a0<\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are setting up external SMTP like Google Workspace and are getting following error: SMTP Debug: SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.\u200b Then you need to do some tweaks inside WHM. WHM > Tweak Settings > &#8220;Restrict outgoing SMTP to root, exim, and mailman (FKA SMTP Tweak)&#8221; (or through WHM > SMTP Restrictions) If server uses CSF then ensure that SMTP_BLOCK is disabled in the CSF configuration\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whm-cpanel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookouthost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookouthost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookouthost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookouthost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookouthost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lookouthost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookouthost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookouthost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookouthost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookouthost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}